The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems
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- Publication date
- 2024-01-08
- Topics
- librivox, audiobooks, poetry, tales, Pilgrims
- Language
- English
- Item Size
- 4.4G
LibriVox recording of The Canterbury Tales and Other Poems by Geoffrey Chaucer; D. Laing Purves.
Read in English by Librivox volunteers
Generally considered to be the first book written in English (rather than Latin, French or Italian), Chaucer's magnum opus is a collection of stories as told by a group of pilgrims at Canterbury. It shows Chaucer's knowledge of a wide variety of story-telling styles, with oral storytelling being the norm at that time. It is widely believed by modern scholars that this work was unfinished at his death. This book also includes other poems, some of which are no longer attributed to him. David Laing Purves edited Chaucer's work to make it more accessible to more modern audiences, and has added many notes and explanations, which can be found in the text.(Summary by LynneT)
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M4B Audiobook 00-24 (372MB)
M4B Audiobook 25-47 (350MB)
M4B Audiobook 48-59 (56MB)
Read in English by Librivox volunteers
Generally considered to be the first book written in English (rather than Latin, French or Italian), Chaucer's magnum opus is a collection of stories as told by a group of pilgrims at Canterbury. It shows Chaucer's knowledge of a wide variety of story-telling styles, with oral storytelling being the norm at that time. It is widely believed by modern scholars that this work was unfinished at his death. This book also includes other poems, some of which are no longer attributed to him. David Laing Purves edited Chaucer's work to make it more accessible to more modern audiences, and has added many notes and explanations, which can be found in the text.(Summary by LynneT)
For further information, including links to online text, reader information, RSS feeds, CD cover or other formats (if available), please go to the LibriVox catalog page for this recording.
For more free audio books or to become a volunteer reader, visit librivox.org.
M4B Audiobook 00-24 (372MB)
M4B Audiobook 25-47 (350MB)
M4B Audiobook 48-59 (56MB)
- Addeddate
- 2024-01-09 00:13:35
- Call number
- 16149
- Identifier
- canterburytales_2401_librivox
- Ocr
- tesseract 5.3.0-6-g76ae
- Ocr_detected_lang
- en
- Ocr_detected_lang_conf
- 1.0000
- Ocr_detected_script
- Latin
- Ocr_detected_script_conf
- 1.0000
- Ocr_module_version
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- Ocr_parameters
- -l eng
- Page_number_confidence
- 0
- Page_number_module_version
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- Ppi
- 300
- Run time
- 27:32:50
- Year
- 2024
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